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Hi, my name is Kevin and I'm here with Yamachan.
Yes, and we are the Kevin's English from podcast.
Oh, that's weird.
The classic.
Yeah, I stuttered a little bit.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's go.
All right.
All right.
We've got a telephone.
A telephone.
Yep.
Did we just receive a telephone call?
Yes, didn't you?
I was with you.
Yeah.
The whole time and I did not see you pick up any calls.
Three minutes ago, I did phone call.
You had a phone call.
Yes.
Like for how long?
Just, you know, five minutes.
You were on a phone for five minutes.
Yes.
And I did not realize that.
Really?
You were standing in front of me.
Okay.
Interesting.
That's interesting.
The question is...
Okay.
What was the most expensive purchase you've ever made?
Oh.
Ta-da.
Ta-da.
What was that?
What is it?
The most expensive purchase I've ever made.
What?
Like, we haven't bought a house yet.
No, not a house.
A car either?
No, not a car.
Like really, really expensive jewelry?
No.
No.
Watch?
No.
No.
What's the...
What's the most expensive one?
One could be my MacBook Pro maybe.
Right.
Right.
How much was that?
Uh, juu... sanman.
Oh, yeah.
That's pretty expensive, right?
Right.
I bought...
I started a business.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
That's like hyaku mayen.
Right.
You bought...
I started a restaurant.
A restaurant.
You bought a restaurant.
That's expensive.
I didn't buy a restaurant.
I started a restaurant.
Yeah, but...
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
I don't know if that's in the category.
Mm-hmm.
But that was an expensive...
Right.
You know?
True.
That's...
Expense.
Yeah.
Yeah, but that's a business thing.
Yeah, that's a business thing, right?
It's just investing.
That's right.
That's investing.
Right.
Hmm.
But you know...
In these days, like recently...
Mm-hmm.
I'm thinking that I don't want to, like, buy something to waste my time and money.
Mm-hmm.
But I just want to invest, you know?
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Like, buying a computer.
Mm-hmm.
That's kind of invest...
Yeah.
In buying me, like, I bought an acoustic guitar, actually.
Yeah.
But that invests me, like...
Yeah.
So that I can play and practice.
So...
Well, think about that.
Mm-hmm.
Buying a restaurant.
Mm-hmm.
Could be an expensive kaimono.
So, like, it's that...
That answer's interesting because I think your take on the musical field is, like, you
don't create music for the market.
You really...
Right?
You don't create music for...
To sell, right?
You create music because you like music.
Yeah.
And it's fulfilling yourself.
It's...
Right.
How is that different from you, from a person buying a Ferrari, so that they are satisfied
with what they have?
Oh, like, the difference...
Differences is I can practice with that and I can be better me.
Mm-hmm.
So that's, you know...
That's investing.
Like, if you buy a Ferrari...
Mm-hmm.
And you won't change that much.
Yeah.
Like, 10 years after, you will just...
Maybe you can drive a little bit better.
Mm-hmm.
But that's not much as a...
You know, gain.
Right.
But I think that music, if you're investing, then you're gonna have to have a return at
some point, right?
Mm-hmm.
If you're not looking for that return in music.
I do, but it doesn't have to be...
It doesn't have to be as money form.
Mm-hmm.
In a form of happiness, right?
The skill, rather than...
Oh.
Like...
Okay.
The playing skills.
Okay.
Or singing skills.
Or making music skills.
Mm-hmm.
That's my return.
Okay.
That I'm thinking now.
Mm-hmm.
So...
Hmm.
Actually, I've started selling my beats online, actually.
Oh, okay.
As I...
Pretty sure that I told you before, but...
On broadcast, maybe.
Mm-hmm.
But in some...
A few months ago, I've started that little business, so...
But that's not your true passion, right?
No, no, no.
It's not to sell your music.
It's more about you creating, being able to create...
Yeah.
The kind of music that you want.
Right, right.
Right?
Right.
So...
I still think that that's...
That, like...
You're valuing your skill.
Mm-hmm.
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You gaining that skill as an ROI.
Yeah.
Right?
But the guy with the Ferrari is like...
Him gaining that status...
Status, yeah.
As the ROI.
Okay.
So it's just a matter of which one do you set your ROI as.
Right.
The first question I asked you was, "Shouldn't it be money?"
Mm-hmm.
"Shouldn't it be the financial returns?"
Yeah.
As the ROI.
But you're saying, "Oh, no.
It's the skills."
Right.
And then I compared it to, "Oh, how is that different from the status of you owning a Ferrari?"
The insecurities that's being covered by having a Ferrari.
So I guess it's a matter of what you set your ROI as.
That's right.
Right?
Like, for me...
You know, we're talking about business using business words.
Yeah.
So thinking about money is natural things as ROI.
Yeah.
But for me, the status that I'm having Ferrari and the status that I'm having 100 million
yen is kind of the same to me.
So...
Right.
But it's...
You know, what's the ROI?
What's the goal?
It's different things.
Like...
You...
Like me, the goal of my life is me being...
Having ability to do much more things.
Mm-hmm.
Like playing music.
Yeah.
Singing.
Maybe painting, maybe.
Building a house, maybe.
Like, speaking English better.
Maybe...
Like, that's my goal.
So my invest is heading to that place.
Got it.
So...
Right.
Economically speaking, you have to invest some money and you have to gain a little bit more money.
Yeah.
Right.
That's right.
So if I get a little bit more money, that money is going to be used to make you...
To acquire that skills, in my case.
So to me, it makes more sense for you to say that you're spending your money for your dreams.
Mm-hmm.
Rather than saying it's investing.
Oh, really?
Because, like, for a guy that wants a Ferrari, that's also investing for him.
Like, if you interpret that as investing.
Right.
Because where he wants to go is the closing the insecurities.
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Where he wants to go is owning that Ferrari and having that status, right?
Mm-hmm.
That would be an investment for him, too.
Yeah.
So I think it would make more sense for him and you to say that you're spending your money on your dreams, right?
Mm-hmm.
Like, you're...
You're spending it, right?
Mm-hmm.
Right, right, right.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
Right, right, right.
But I agree.
I agree.
I do feel like I only want to spend money on the things that would get me to where I want to be.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
In the future.
Right.
So I do want to buy a PlayStation 5.
Okay.
I do want to play Grand Theft Auto.
Okay.
Grand Theft Auto.
Yeah.
The video game.
Mm-hmm.
But...
The shooting game, right?
Right, the shooting game.
But I don't want to go there because I have...
I feel like where is that going to take me?
Right.
Playing video games, where is that going to take me?
How is that going to get me closer to where I want to be in the future?
Right.
That's wasting.
The kaimono.
Right.
Wasting kaimono things.
So...
Right.
I get you.
Right.
The invest is a little bit different way that, you know, it's an economic word.
Yeah.
So...
Right, right.
The way I used invest is a little bit different.
Uh-huh.
It's dreamy word.
Right, right, right, right, right, right.
Dreamy life word.
Okay.
Got it, got it.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Right, right.
So the question was, what was the most expensive kaimono you did?
Well, I guess right now, top of my mind, it's a MacBook.
Mm-hmm.
Or like my mattress here.
Mattress here?
Yeah, dude.
Mattress.
Was that expensive?
That was like, like none of my end or something.
Oh, really?
It's a really good mattress.
This mattress?
Yeah.
How...
Why?
It's a...
What is that?
It's a...
I don't know.
It's a...
Oh, it's soft.
It's soft.
Right.
It balances out.
It's hard inside.
It balances out the pressure of the body.
Oh.
I don't know the technical terms or anything.
It's just...
I just bought it because it was a good mattress.
And I needed, I really needed it.
Okay.
For better sleep.
For better sleep.
So you've got now a better sleep.
This mattress, this pillow right here, this is a custom-made pillow.
Oh, really?
You did that?
Custom-made pillow.
Oh, you did that too, right?
Yeah.
I went to a pillow shop and measured my...
Got your...
My neck.
Yeah.
And things like that.
I did that too.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and I got them.
Oh.
But it did not change any of my sleeping quality.
Okay.
The mattress didn't change it.
The pillow didn't change it.
God, what am I going to do?
It's probably...
What is that?
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I don't know.
It's probably the sugar.
Right.
And I have the answer right here.
And I'm not taking any action against it.
I'm thinking that the pillow and the mattress are going to save my sleeping life.
It's probably the sugar.
And I probably know it deep down.
Yeah, that's probably the reason.
Oh, God.
But that's a big problem in your life.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
We've been getting several DMs from our listeners saying that, "Kevin, your life, your health
is at risk because you've been taking so much sugar."
Right.
You have to care about tautenilobial.
That's a disease.
Yeah.
And I'm...
Yeah, it's a pretty serious deal.
And it's not...
But like...
Not as much.
I'm not...
I don't think I'm...
The image that the audience has of me taking sugar, I don't think that it's not as much.
Okay.
I don't think so.
Like me spending so many times with you and watching carefully with you, I would say you
are taking a little bit too much sugar than the average line.
I agree with that.
But not as much as how I'm branding myself on the podcast.
Right.
Like not literally any time.
I was just overly exaggerating it.
It's an expression that I was doing.
You're taking sugar at morning, at noon, in sanji no oyatsu, at dinner, and up before sleeping.
Yeah.
But like not every day.
Okay.
Not every day.
Just telling you that.
Okay.
Right.
I do feel like this is a help.
If I could, I would.
Like I want to.
But like I know it's a health problem and I care about my health.
That's why I go to the gym.
Okay.
But.
Yeah.
But I think that's not too much like being diseased or kind of thing.
Yeah.
Okay.
You know, it's inside.
Over the average.
The usual sweet, sweet liking people's zone.
I am trying to control my sugar.
Yeah.
I'm trying.
I'm trying.
And I'm.
Yeah.
I'm fighting for it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just letting you know.
Right.
Listeners, I am trying to fight for my health right now.
Yeah.
Right.
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So you don't.
I need to control my sugar level.
Right.
Every time I want to go to a convenience store, I.
First, there's a, there's a, there's a conflict in my mind.
Okay.
At my house.
Am I going to leave my house to go to the convenience store to get an ice cream or not?
There's a conflict there.
And if I win, I stay in the house.
And sometimes I lose.
Right.
I go to the convenience store.
I walk like what?
Seven minutes to the convenience store.
Right.
Go there.
I stand in front of the ice cream area and I have another conflict here.
I fight myself.
I.
There's a, there's, there's a part of me inside that's still fighting to be healthier.
Right.
I go, I talk to myself, Kevin, what the hell are you doing?
Spending, spending your money on, on, on sugar and short term happiness.
What are you doing, Kevin?
Right.
You could see, you could, you could save your money.
Yeah.
But I'm not, not buy the ice cream and, and be healthier by not taking in the sugar.
Right.
And I, uh, and I sometimes win.
Right.
Hard to believe, but I do.
Yeah.
So you just go to the convenience store and buy nothing.
And go home.
Right.
That's what I do.
Actually, that's, that's my life, man.
That's what I, that's what I sometimes do.
Okay.
And, um, sometimes I lose, but, but sometimes I win.
Yeah.
That's a good thing.
I'm fighting for it.
Right.
You're a big man.
I am a big man, man.
Controlling my desires.
That's a great thing.
Thank you listeners for, uh, like worrying about his health status.
I mean, that is a huge factor of me fighting with, you know, your support on, by you telling
me that my life health is at risk is a huge factor of me winning the war in my head.
Yeah.
Okay.
It actually is.
Okay.
So thank you so much guys.
Right.
But you don't have to worry like, like he's going to die or something like that.
Yeah.
It's quite healthy.
I'm a high, high fit body.
Yeah.
I do.
I do.
I do.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
